Nizami's appeal hearing not resumed

The Supreme Court yesterday could not resume the hearing on the appeal filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, challenging a verdict that sentenced him to death for his war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was scheduled to hear Nizami's appeal but they could not do so as one of the judges was not present, two deputy attorneys general requesting anonymity told The Daily Star.

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They, however, could not say why the judge was absent in the bench.

SC Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam also said he did not know anything about the absence.

On September 9, the four-member bench started hearing the appeal and adjourned the proceedings till yesterday.

On November 23 last year, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami challenged the death penalty.

International Crimes Tribunal-1 on October 29 last year gave him the death penalty on four charges, including murdering intellectuals.